start-pbi

start-pbi is a skill for Claude Code from atman-33/workhub. It costs 55 tokens per session (372 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow tool for picking up a backlog item, marking it as in progress, assigning it, and producing the required branch name. A backlog item is a defined piece of product work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a product backlog item. It can also create the branch in the developer’s checkout from the project’s main development branch.
Why use it?
It keeps the backlog status, assignee, branch, and later merge history connected. The required item ID in branch or merge titles makes it easier to trace code back to the planned work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the team-ops plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting a product backlog item. It can also create the branch in the developer’s checkout from the project’s main development branch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atman-33/workhub/start-pbi
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add atman-33/workhub --skill start-pbi
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atman-33/workhub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install team-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 372 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.00372
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00186
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00037

Measured 4d ago against content hash f5d3e6766c31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start-pbi scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/team-ops/skills/start-pbi/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Start a PBI

The branch-naming convention is enforced here, at the moment work begins — it is what later links merged code back to the PBI (sync-project-repos.mjs extracts ids from merge subjects).

Steps

  1. Resolve the project and PBI (by id like P-0012, or by title search in backlog/items/).
  2. Update the PBI file: status: doing, assignee: <me> (from <team-context>), updated: <date>; mirror the status in product-backlog.md.
  3. Issue the branch name: pbi/<id-lowercase>-<slug> (e.g. pbi/p-0012-user-login), slug from the item filename. State it clearly and remind: merge/PR titles into the project's dev-main branch must carry the id (branch name or a [P-0012] tag).
  4. If asked, create the branch in the user's own checkout of the relevant repo (repos frontmatter / project.json), cut from the project's devMainBranch — never in the script-owned mirror under repoWorkspacesRoot.
  5. Append an activity-log line (- <date> [<agent>/<me>] start-pbi: P-0012 → doing, branch pbi/p-0012-...).
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 29 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A f5d3e6766c31

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start-pbi is a skill published in the GitHub repository atman-33/workhub (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 372 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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